906 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June io, 1911. 
A. G. Brown, 45:21. Eighth—Emily L., F. 
Luecke, Clason Point Y. C., 48:26. Ninth— 
Bonita, G. Stredeley, Clason Point Y. C., 1 :o2:29. 
Tenth — Alfred S., H. Loeldner, Orun Y. C., 
1:06:50. Eleventh—Roanoke, J. J. Wallus, 
1:19:45. Twelfth — Bophop, H. S. Hallett, 
1:14:19. Thirtenth —Traveler, M. Heine, Flush¬ 
ing Bay Y. C., 54:20. Fourteenth—Marie I., 
Ohle brothers, Ravenswood Y. C., 54:17. Fif¬ 
teenth—Vixen, E. P. Gleidrath, Clason Point 
Y. C., 54:50. Sixteenth—Shucks, W. Kropke, 
Morrisania Y. C., 1:24:25. Sevententh—Augusta, 
A. PI. Kropke, 1 :oo:i3. 
Lexington II. Launched. 
The motor boat Lexington II., owned by 
Henry P. Scott, of Wilmington, Del., was 
launched last week from the yard of the New 
York Yacht, Launch and Engine Company, 
Morris Heights. The boat is 65 feet over all, 
11 feet 8 inches beam and 4 feet 3 inches draft. 
The motive power consists of two 30-horse¬ 
power Twentieth Century engines situated in 
the middle of the vessel and separated from 
the accommodation by two watertight bulk¬ 
heads, this compartment containing, in addition 
to the machinery, a gasolene supply sufficient 
to give the craft a radius of 750 miles, a large 
ice-box, sink and kerosene range, the dimen¬ 
sions of the vessel being such that it was im¬ 
practicable to have a separate galley. 
The owner’s quarters are in the after part of 
the vessel. Immediately aft the engine room is 
a stateroom, the full width of the boat, having 
a built-in berth in each side with drawers under 
for towage, a large bureau at the forward end 
with plate glass mirror and at the after end of 
each berth a large hanging wardrobe. This room 
opens at the after end into a lobby, from which 
access is had to the upper deck by means of a 
companionway on the starboard side. The 
lobby itself can be utilized as a stateroom, as it 
has a full length extension transom that can be 
curtained off, still heaving the passage to the 
other staterooms. The Lexington will be used 
in the waters about 1 Wilmington. 
Long Beach Motor Boat Club. 
The Long Beach Motor Boat and Yacht Club, 
of Long Beach, L. I., has been organized. The 
club of which Lawrence Perry is commodore 
will engage actively in the work of making 
the south shore of Long Island a racing center 
of widespread reputation, joining with such ef¬ 
fective organizations as the South Shore, Hemp¬ 
stead Bay, Keystone, Unqua Corinthian, South 
Side, South Bay, Nassau and Cedarhurst yacht 
clubs and the Bayshore Motor Boat Club. 
The club is building a fine home of stucco and 
red tile after the prevailing manner of the Long 
Beach buildings. The location is on the chan¬ 
nel a few hundred feet below the Long Island 
Railroad bridge. 
The first regatta will be held on Saturday, 
July 15, and plans are making for a memorable 
inauguration of the club’s first racing event. The 
principal trophy will be a $600 cup, to be known 
as the South Shore Motor Boat Challenge 
Trophy, which must be won three times 
by the same boat for final ownership. In 
addition, however, three prizes will be given if 
the entries exceed five. The event in which this 
trophy figures will be for high speed automobile 
boats under 40 feet waterline and with a spread 
of not less than twenty miles an hour. There 
will be a race also for Class B boats of less 
than 40 foot waterline. 
National Y. C. 
The National Y. C. had a race for cruising 
motor boats on Decoration Day. Four boats 
were started over the course, 29)4 miles long. 
The times were: 
Motor Boats—29% Miles—Start, 1:30. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Sim Too, A. C. Soper. 4 14 51 3 04 54 
Suis Moi, Robert Henke . 4 16 49 3 06 49 
Neptune, Jr., N. B. Smyth. 4 33 48 3 06 49 
Wanderlust, E. J. Steiner.Did not Finish. 
Corrected times—Suis Moi, 2.39.12; Sim Too, 2.42.51; 
Neptune, Jr., 2.4S.07. 
Wa-Shi-Shi-Ma Sold. 
The Hollis Burgess yacht agency has sold the 
big motor boat Wa-Shi-Shi-Ma, owned by Frank 
A. Smith, of Worcester, Mass., a member of the 
Boston Y. C., to Charles W. Clifford, of New 
Bedford, Mass., who will user her running be¬ 
tween his summer home at West Chop, Martha’s 
Vineyard, to New Bedford. 
Wa-Shi-Shi-Ma is 62 feet long, 13 feet beam, 
3 feet 6 inches draft. She has a very large 
cabin with comfortable stateroms and is one of 
the best equipped power boats of her size ever 
built. She is thirty-two gross tons and has a 
40 horsepower Knox motor. 
Canoeing. 
The Rancocas Cruise. 
The Atlantic Division Memorial Day cruise 
down the Rancocas, starting from Brown’s Mills, 
was voted by all participants a great success. 
The New York members were especially enthu¬ 
siastic. The attendance was less than half the 
number of last year, but the falling off was prob¬ 
able due to Monday coming in between the 
holidays. This no doubt prevented many from 
going. 
All had collected by Saturday night, a few 
reaching camp late. Among the late arrivals 
were R. H. Nash, of the Knickerbockers, and 
J. A. Mott, who missed their connections at 
Whiting’s Junction, and had a long walk to 
camp. They tried to ride on a freight train, 
but were put off by the crew, although they were 
allowed to leave their suit cases on the train, 
which was a big help. 
The camp was made just below the dam, near 
a little sandy beach and on the edge of a pine 
grove. A short distance below a fine spring is 
located. After dinner Sunday the start was made 
about 2 o’clock. The creek is very narrow and 
winding from Brown’s Mills almost all the way 
to New Lisbon, and the trees and bushes meet 
overhead, making it most attractive and shady. 
Instead of camping above the New Lisbon 
dam, as was first proposed owing to some of 
the party who had to return on Monday morn¬ 
ing, the little town of Pemberton was made, and 
all camped in a meadow below the dam. A 
number of the boys, went up to the village after 
supper to look it over. Sunday night the dew 
was very heavy, a rnost like rain, which drove 
some of the tentless party to seek the shelter 
of their overturned canoes. 
Monday morning the start was made fairly 
early and a stop for lunch was made in the 
beautiful white oak grove, about a mile and a 
half above the Smithville dam. After lunch it 
was only a short paddle to the dam, which was 
successfully negotiated in a few minutes, and the 
course continued until the Mount Holly water 
works were reached, where a short portage 
across the dam was quickly made. In Mount 
Holly the party stopped for some time, getting 
supplies. The unfortunates who had to leave 
Pemberton in the morning all joined again at 
Mount Holly, excepting one or two, who turned 
up at the big spring below. After the purchases 
were made and the absentees of the day col¬ 
lected, the party continued down to the spring, 
which was reached about 6 rjo. A number of 
the boys enjoyed a good swim here, and after 
the camp was put in order and supper finished, 
everyone joined in collecting wood for the camp¬ 
fire, which was made a feature of the last day 
in camp. Every one was happy, and a good deal 
of good natured chaffing was indulged in, the 
usual songs sung and stories told. The festivi¬ 
ties were kept up until well into the morning 
hours, when sill settled down for a few hours 
of sleep. 
The cruise was resumed fairly early on Tues¬ 
day morning, as the advantage of the strong ebb 
tide was not to be despised. The morning sun 
was hot, and when Centreton was reached, the 
half way stop between the big spring and De- 
lanco, all landed for refreshments. After a short 
rest the party paddled steadily, well bunched, 
until Delanco was reached, where they were met 
by Walter Bockman in his motor boat and towed 
down the Delaware to Wissinoming, the home of 
the Red Dragon Canoe Club. 
After indulging in shower baths the boys 
donned their shore clothes and all sat down to 
a very generous supply of good things for sup¬ 
per, and thus ended a very delightful three days’ 
cruise. Walter G. Sibley, Chairman. 
Atlantic Division Races. 
The Delaware River race meet will be held 
off the club house of the Yapewi Aquatic Club 
at Bordentown, N. J., June 17, at 3 p. m. The 
events: 
1. Club fours, double blades, half-mile 
straightaway. 
2. Tandem, single blades, half-mile straight¬ 
away. 
3. Tail-end, one-eighth mile straightaway. 
4. One man, double blade, half-mile straight¬ 
away. 
5. Blindfold race, one man. 
6. Tandem, double blades, half-mile straight¬ 
away. 
7. Club fours, single blades, half-mile 
straightaway. 
Twenty-foot cedar racing canoes are eligible 
for events 1 and 7; in all other events open 
cruising canoes only are eligible. First and 
second prizes will be awarded in all events ex¬ 
cepting 3 and 5, in which first prize only will be 
given. All entries to be made with the commit¬ 
tee before the start of the races. At the con¬ 
clusion of the regatta the members of the 
Yapewi Aquatic Club will serve a luncheon in 
the club house to all members and visitors. In 
the evening the club will give a dance, to which 
all are invited without further invitation. 
Members intending shipping canoes (includ¬ 
ing club fours) from New York should ship 
canoes by freight. 
Train service from New York to Bordentown: 
Leave Pennsylvania Station, New York, 9:00* 
A. M., 9:04 A. M., 11:08* A. M., 11:12* A. M., 
12:45 P. M., 1:30* P. M. 
Leave Jersey City, 9:02 A. M., 9:25 A. M., 
11:02 A. M., 11:25 A. M., 12:55 P- M., 1:24 P. 
M. 
Arrive Bordentown, 10:37 A. M., 11:44 A. M., 
12:47 P. M., 1:48 P. M., 3:01 P. M., 3:17 P. M. 
On trains marked (*) it will be necessary to 
change cars at Trenton. Convenient train 
service obtains from Bordentown to New York. 
A registration fee of 25 cents will be collected 
from all members in attendance. The Yapewi 
Aquatic Club already have quite a reputation 
for sociability and an enviable way of entertain¬ 
ing visitors, and since they have compelled the 
committee to allow them to show their pro¬ 
ficiency in this direction during this meet, you 
will miss something if you do not arrange to 
be there and taste a sample of their hospitality. 
You should attend also with the idea that you 
are helping make the meet a successful one.' 
Henry B. Fort, Chairman. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 
Eastern Division.—Frederick Coulson, 12 Lenox 
street, Worcester, Mass., by J. B. Howard. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6228, Benj. A. Sleeper, 428 
High street, Burlington, N. J. 
Northern Division.—6226, W. Bartlett Dalton, 
563 Johnson street, Kingston, Ont., Can.; 6227, 
Dr. Albert Wm. Winnett, 96 Bagot street, King¬ 
ston, Ont., Can. 
MEMBER RE-INSTATED. 
Eastern Division.—5998, W. A. Phinney, 450 
Manchester street, Manchester, N. H. 
Book Exchange. 
No doubt there are many of our readers who possess 
old books, and others who would be glad to possess 
them, and we are, therefore, making a special place in 
our advertising columns, which may be called a book 
exchange, where those who wish to purchase, sell or ex¬ 
change second-hand books may ask for what they need, 
or offer what they have. 
